Braiding-machine.



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BRAIDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED r313. 10, 1910.

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Patented July 26, 1910.

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APPLICATION FILED PEBJO. 1910.

Patented July 26, 1910.

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EINETEE STATE PATENT @FFIQE.

MAURICE 1). BROWN, 0F YONKERS, AND HAROLD K. BEACE, OF HASTINGS-UPON-HUDSON, NEW YORK.

BRAIDING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 26, 1910.

Application filed February 10, 1910. Serial No. 543,055.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MArnzion D. Brown and HAROLD K. BEACH, citizens ofthe United States, residing, respectively, at Yonkers and atHastings-upon-l-Iudson, in the county of Westchester and State of NewYork,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Braiding-Machines;and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings and the characters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1 a broken top or plan view of a portion of a braiding machineillustrating our invention. Fig. 2 a vertical sectional view on the linea-b of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 a broken sectional view on the line 0cZ of Fig. 1.Fig. 4 a plan view of one of the operating levers, detached. Fig. 5 aplan view of one of the in and out blocks, detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in braiding machines especiallyintended for covering wire for electric use, but which may be used, ifdesired, without a wire or core so as to produce a tubular body.

The object of the invention is a simple and convenient means for movingthe spindles, and the invention consists in the particular arrangementof parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly recited inthe claims.

In carrying out our invention we employ two plates 2 and 3 arranged inthe same plane. These are so mounted and arranged as to form an annularslot l between them. In these plates are a series of radially alinedslots 5 in which are mounted in and out blocks 6 carrying spindles 7 onwhich bobbins 8 are mounted, the blocks being adapted to slide from oneplate into the other plate. Below the plates 2 and 3 is a rotary plate9, and this lower plate 9 carries a series of spindles 10 which extendthrough the slot 41 so as to travel therein, as the plate 9 is turned.Threads from bobbins 11 car ried by the said plate 9 pass up throughthese spindles. Pivotally mounted on each spindle 10 beneath the plates2 and 3 is a lever 12 having a long forwardly projecting nose 13 and atthe rear with a left arm lt and a right arm 15 for the purpose as willhereinafter appear.

Any convenient means may be provided for driving the rotary plate 9. Asthis plate advances, the nose 13 will engage with the block 6 located inthe plate 2 and backed up by a pin 16 mounted in the under face of theplate 2, as indicated in position a will crowd the block from the plate2 into the plate 3, and as it continues in its course the right arm 15will engage the block which is then in the plate 3 and swing the leverfrom the position a to the position b, the extent of throw being limitedby a stop-pin 17 in the under face of the plate 3. The lever is then inposition to engage with the next block in the plate 3 and move that nextblock from plate 3 to plate 2, and as it continues its movement the leftarm 14 will engage the pin 16 and turn the lever to its first posit-ion.Thus the threads from the movable bobbins will be woven with threadsfrom the bobbins carried by the block 6, and these threads are carriedup and around a core or wire entered through a centrally arrangedopening 18 as common with braiding machines.

WVe claim 1. In a braiding machine, the combination with two upperplates arranged in line and spaced to form an annular slot between them,said plates being also provided with radial slots, in and out blocksadapted to slide in said slots from one plate to the other, spindlescarried by said blocks, a rotary plate below said upper plates carryinga series of spindles extending upward through said slot, a swinginglever mounted on each moving spindle, said lever comprising a forwardlyprojecting nose, and right and left arms by which the in and out blocksare moved from one plate to the other alternating with the movements ofthe rotary moving spindles.

2. In a braiding machine, the combination with two upper plates arrangedin line and spaced to form an annular slot between them, said platesbeing also provided with radial slots, in and out blocks adapted toslide in said slots from one plate to the other, spindles carried bysaid blocks, a retary plate below said upper plates carrying a series ofspindles extending upward through said slot, a swinging lever mounted oneach moving spindle, said lever comprisin a forwardly projecting nose,right and this specification in the presence of two subleit arms byWhich the in and out spindles scribing Witnesses.

are moved from one plate to the other alternating With the movements ofthe rotary moving spindles, and stop pins in the under face of saidupper plates to limit the move- Witnesses:

ment of said levers. WILLIAM A. CULLEN,

In testimony whereof, We, have signed JOHN SOULLY.

